Harvesting and marketing flue-cured tobacco
Contributors: United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Information; United States. Agricultural Marketing Service
Series: Photo series -- no. 30; Photo series (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 30.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Information, Photography Division
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Marketing; Harvesting; Pictorial works; Flue-cured tobacco
Notes: Caption title.

"Flue-cured tobacco--our principal cigarette type--is produced and marketed in a number of south-eastern states. The 1958 crop was more than 1 billion pounds. The pictures in this series, show the harvesting, curing, selling, redrying, and packing of flue-cured tobacco. They were taken in North Carolina in the summer of 1958, for USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service."

46 captioned photographs.

"December 1958."